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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:38:00AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> On 2017-12-15 11:01, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> > 
> >> I was also considering the ellipsis '...' but in classical ASCII, they
> >> are three characters wide, that's why I ended up with .., + or * to keep
> >> it short.
> > 
> > ... and the problem with 3 chars is?
> 
> It takes more space in the schematics.

IMHO one more char (if not using Unicode...) is worth for being confusion proof...

> >> But since we arrived in Unicode, this can be solved by using the
> >> horizontal ellipsis single character: U+2026 '…' or in our case the
> >> midline horizontal ellipsis U+22EF '⋯'.
> > 
> > Please do _not_ use Unicode for this -please-
> 
> What are the issues you expect?
> Since these symbols are only used on display, I would not mind using them.

Ok right, I was wrong, forget it. It's not a big issue anyway...

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